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- DistroWatch Weekly (September 7)
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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: September 10, 2020 to November 9, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 13 | October 13 October 15 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2020 | Online |
| September 15 | October 24 October 25 |
[Cancelled] T-Dose 2020 | Geldrop (Eindhoven), Netherlands |
| September 18 | October 10 October 11 |
Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online | Online |
| September 23 | November 7 November 8 |
RustFest Global | Online |
| October 1 | December 1 December 3 |
Open Source Firmware Conference | online |
| October 7 | November 28 November 29 |
EmacsConf 2020 | Online |
| October 11 | November 7 November 8 |
OpenFest 2020 | online |
| October 12 | October 19 October 23 |
EPICS collaboration meeting 2020 | Virtual |
| October 14 | October 28 October 29 |
eBPF Summit | online |
| October 25 | November 5 November 7 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Online |
| October 30 | November 21 November 22 |
MiniDebConf - Gaming Edition | Online |
| October 31 | February 6 February 7 |
FOSDEM 2021 | Online |
| November 1 | November 14 November 15 |
Battlemesh v13 | online |
| November 5 | November 10 | S&T 2020 (SQLite & TCL) | Online |
| November 6 | January 23 January 25 |
linux.conf.au 2021 | Online |
| November 6 | November 16 November 22 |
Guix Days | Online |
| November 6 | February 18 February 20 |
DevConf.CZ | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: September 10, 2020 to November 9, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 4 September 11 |
Akademy 2020 | Virtual, Online |
| September 9 September 10 |
State of the Source Summit | online |
| September 13 September 18 |
The C++ Conference 2020 | Online |
| September 14 | GNU Radio Conference | Virtual |
| September 16 September 18 |
X.Org Developer's Conference 2020 | online |
| September 18 | [Postponed to 2021] PGDay Austria 2020 | Vienna, Austria |
| September 22 September 24 |
Linaro Virtual Connect | online |
| September 29 October 1 |
ApacheCon 2020 | Online |
| October 2 October 3 |
PyGotham TV | Online |
| October 2 October 5 |
PyCon India 2020 | Virtual |
| October 3 October 4 |
Handmade Seattle 2020 | Online |
| October 6 October 8 |
2020 Virtual LLVM Developers' Meeting | online |
| October 8 October 9 |
PyConZA 2020 | Online |
| October 10 October 11 |
Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online | Online |
| October 13 October 15 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2020 | Online |
| October 15 October 17 |
openSUSE LibreOffice Conference | Online |
| October 19 October 23 |
EPICS collaboration meeting 2020 | Virtual |
| October 19 October 23 |
Open Infrastructure Summit | Virtual |
| October 19 October 20 |
[Virtual] All Things Open 2020 | Virtual |
| October 20 October 23 |
[Canceled] PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Berlin, Germany |
| October 24 October 25 |
[Cancelled] T-Dose 2020 | Geldrop (Eindhoven), Netherlands |
| October 26 October 29 |
Open Source Summit Europe | online |
| October 28 October 29 |
eBPF Summit | online |
| October 28 October 29 |
[Canceled] DevOpsDays Berlin 2020 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 28 October 30 |
[Virtual] KVM Forum | Virtual |
| October 29 October 30 |
[Virtual] Linux Security Summit Europe | Virtual |
| November 5 November 7 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Online |
| November 7 November 8 |
OpenFest 2020 | online |
| November 7 November 8 |
RustFest Global | Online |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 3, 2020 to September 9, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | DSA-4759-1 | stable | ark | 2020-09-04 |
| Debian | DLA-2363-1 | LTS | asyncpg | 2020-09-03 |
| Debian | DLA-2368-1 | LTS | grunt | 2020-09-09 |
| Debian | DLA-2366-1 | LTS | imagemagick | 2020-09-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2367-1 | LTS | lemonldap-ng | 2020-09-07 |
| Debian | DSA-4762-1 | stable | lemonldap-ng | 2020-09-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2365-1 | LTS | netty-3.9 | 2020-09-04 |
| Debian | DLA-2364-1 | LTS | netty | 2020-09-04 |
| Debian | DSA-4760-1 | stable | qemu | 2020-09-06 |
| Debian | DLA-2278-3 | LTS | squid3 | 2020-09-04 |
| Debian | DLA-2362-1 | LTS | uwsgi | 2020-09-03 |
| Debian | DSA-4758-1 | stable | xorg-server | 2020-09-04 |
| Debian | DSA-4761-1 | stable | zeromq3 | 2020-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d5e74bf9a0 | F32 | ansible | 2020-09-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c2f8a1e8a5 | F32 | ark | 2020-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a1f140614b | F32 | chromium | 2020-09-04 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-965e406543 | F32 | cryptsetup | 2020-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-126a0dd319 | F31 | curl | 2020-09-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-cd8b8f887b | F31 | dovecot | 2020-09-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-95f2c5cc25 | F31 | geary | 2020-09-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d445fb484a | F32 | geary | 2020-09-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4246288e21 | F32 | gnutls | 2020-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0d3d3f5072 | F31 | httpd | 2020-09-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-708b23f2ce | F32 | kernel | 2020-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-708b23f2ce | F32 | kernel-headers | 2020-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-708b23f2ce | F32 | kernel-tools | 2020-09-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c83556709c | F31 | lua | 2020-09-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-747ec39700 | F32 | mysql-connector-java | 2020-09-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-73af8655eb | F31 | squid | 2020-09-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-63f3bd656e | F32 | squid | 2020-09-03 |
| Gentoo | 202009-02 | dovecot | 2020-09-06 | |
| Gentoo | 202009-01 | gnutls | 2020-09-06 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0363 | 7 | ansible | 2020-09-05 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0359 | 7 | cairo | 2020-09-02 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0362 | 7 | lua and lua5.3 | 2020-09-04 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0365 | 7 | postgresql | 2020-09-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0364 | 7 | python-rsa | 2020-09-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0360 | 7 | sane | 2020-09-04 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0361 | 7 | squid | 2020-09-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1328-1 | oSB SLE-15-SP1 | chromium | 2020-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1345-1 | 15.1 | curl | 2020-09-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1359-1 | 15.2 | curl | 2020-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1384-1 | 15.1 | firefox | 2020-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1391-1 | 15.2 | firefox | 2020-09-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1332-1 | 15.1 | freerdp | 2020-09-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1385-1 | gettext-runtime | 2020-09-08 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1325-1 | 15.1 | kernel | 2020-09-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1379-1 | 15.1 | kernel | 2020-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1382-1 | 15.2 | kernel | 2020-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1368-1 | 15.1 | libX11 | 2020-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1370-1 | 15.2 | libX11 | 2020-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1354-1 | 15.1 | php7 | 2020-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1356-1 | 15.2 | php7 | 2020-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1326-1 | 15.2 | postgresql10 | 2020-09-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1393-1 | 15.1 15.2 | python-Flask-Cors | 2020-09-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1346-1 | 15.1 | squid | 2020-09-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1369-1 | 15.2 | squid | 2020-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1383-1 | 15.1 | thunderbird | 2020-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1392-1 | 15.2 | thunderbird | 2020-09-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1374-1 | 15.1 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1376-1 | 15.2 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-09-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3617 | OL7 | dovecot | 2020-09-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3556 | OL7 | firefox | 2020-09-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5837 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5837 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3634 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3697-01 | EL7 | .NET Core 3.1 | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3699-01 | EL8 | .NET Core 3.1 | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3644-01 | EL8.2 | cloud-init | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3617-01 | EL7 | dovecot | 2020-09-03 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3665-01 | EL8 | go-toolset:rhel8 | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3654-01 | EL8 | libcroco | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3658-01 | EL8 | librepo | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3662-01 | EL8 | php:7.3 | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3669-01 | EL8 | postgresql:10 | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3623-01 | EL8 EL8.0 EL8.1 | squid:4 | 2020-09-03 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3643-01 | EL6 | thunderbird | 2020-09-08 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3631-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2020-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3634-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2020-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3633-01 | EL8.0 | thunderbird | 2020-09-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3632-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2020-09-07 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:3617-1 | SL7 | dovecot | 2020-09-03 |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-248-01 | gnutls | 2020-09-04 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14481-1 | SLE11 | curl | 2020-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2544-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | firefox | 2020-09-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2563-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2020-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2562-1 | SLE15 | go1.14 | 2020-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14482-1 | SLE11 | java-1_7_0-ibm | 2020-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2482-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2020-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14484-1 | SLE11 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2020-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2461-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2020-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2453-1 | SLE15 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2020-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2576-1 | OS7 SLE12 | kernel | 2020-09-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2478-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2540-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2574-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2574-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2578-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-09-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2487-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2486-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2486-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2485-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2541-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-04 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2575-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2580-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2575-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2577-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2577-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2579-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2020-09-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2475-1 | SLE12 | libX11 | 2020-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2474-1 | SLE15 | libX11 | 2020-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2570-1 | SLE12 | libjpeg-turbo | 2020-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2569-1 | SLE15 | libjpeg-turbo | 2020-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2477-1 | SLE12 | php5 | 2020-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2456-1 | SLE15 | php7 | 2020-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2455-1 | SLE15 | php7 | 2020-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2471-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | squid | 2020-09-03 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2552-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2020-09-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2452-1 | SLE15 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-09-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2481-1 | SLE15 | xorg-x11-server | 2020-09-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4449-2 | 14.04 | apport | 2020-09-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4474-2 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | firefox | 2020-09-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4491-1 | 20.04 | gnutls28 | 2020-09-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4487-2 | 12.04 14.04 | libx11 | 2020-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4487-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | libx11 | 2020-09-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4489-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.3, linux-aws-5.4, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke-4.15, linux-gke-5.0, linux-gke-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oem-osp1, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-raspi2, linux-raspi2-5.3, linux-snapdragon | 2020-09-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4488-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-hwe-18.04 | 2020-09-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4490-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-hwe-18.04 | 2020-09-08 |
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